ENG510 Midterm Quiz Combined Set 2

ENG510

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Maha Malik Sociolinguistics

1. Linguistics generally recognize........ Major language families in Papua new genua. (2; 3; 4; 5)
2. Under the official language act, both English and....... Have official federal status throughout Canada. (French; Chinese; Japanese)
3. Fish man asserts that a typical case of language shift can happen over..... Generation. (3; 4; 5; 6)
4. Which of the following is used to refer to varieties according to use. (Mode; variety; tone; register)
5. Fill in the blank: Vygotsky was _? (Answer: Russian)
6. The British Isles dialects ___ of North America. (Answer: Australasia)
7. Outdated languages are known ----- Archic
8. Language___ is general term for any distinct form of language on linguistic experience.(Variety)
9. .language used by specific area is called___(Dialect)
10. sociolinguistics distinguish b/w sex as a biological term and gender used to describe ____constructed categories based on sex. (SOCIALLY)
11. Galim has approx___ inhabitants. (3000)
12. which of following typically different in quality of voice, pronunciation, distinction of vowel____ (Tenor; accent)
13. which of the following model states that language change emanates from a single starting point and is gradually incorporated into the speech of the nearest neighbor. (Wave; spring; vibes; diffusion)
14. An aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in some common endeavor may be termed as............ (Community of practice; community of use; Group; all of these)
15. Which of the following centuries was a particularly good time in the history of the study of regional variation in language (19th; 20th; 21st; 18)
16. In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings.
17. Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society.
18. According to the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), there are two broad types of language variety
19. Groups and communities themselves are also ever changing, their boundaries are often porous, and internal relationships shift.
20. Sociolinguists call the creole the BASILECT.
21. Multilingualism is the use of more than one language by a single individual or community.
22. CAT stands for: Communication Accommodation Theory
23. Sociolinguistic is a Descriptive study.
24. Mode refers to the means by which communication takes place — notably, by speech or writing
25. 1969 language Act use languages English and Urdu
26. Language and social interaction have a reciprocal relationship
27. Code Switching is the switch or shift from one language to the other which involves longer stretches or units of language at the clause or sentence boundary.
28. There is an evidence that language attitudes influence sound change.
29. English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom
30. The first social dialect study was conducted in the summer of 1961 on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts in the north-eastern United States.
31. Pidgin expands and develop into Creole.
32. Black English is A category of decrolizatn.
33. a typical standard language will pass through the codification, elaboration and selection.
34. Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea) has 42 million speakers.
35. life span is divided into 4 stages.
36. Urbanization is a great eroder of linguistic frontiers
37. Linguists speak of both standard and non-standard varieties.
38. the basic perspectives ' Anatomy of language deal with Structure
39. William Labov (1927) has been a prominent voice in American linguistics since the early 1960s.
40. Oxford Living Dictionaries define Sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of __________ dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. (all of the given options, class, occupational, regional)
41. Who asserted that the use of a language involves who speaks, what language, to whom, when and where? (Fishman)
42. According to whom language is a social value which researches social groups for phenomena like multilingualism and lingual conflict? (Su Chiao Chen)